TL;DR: Dynamic Yield’s Unified Customer Profile APIs allow brands to programmatically access user-level insights from a wealth of new and existing sources and serve highly-targeted personalized interactions across both traditional channels and a whole new set of modern digital interfaces.

Real-time personalization doesn’t happen in a bubble and it requires collecting and deriving huge amounts of data about user attributes from multiple channels and sources to get it right. In a reality where US adults have doubled their digital screen time since 2008, reaching a peak of nearly six connected devices per person – consumers expect a consistent customer experience when interacting with brands, whether online, in-store, via mobile app, or even during conversations with representatives in the call center.

This increased digital connectivity is transforming the way teams are thinking about and building experiences.

With more touchpoints being added to the customer journey seemingly every day, there comes a new set of opportunities, and with them, a slew of corresponding challenges. As the personalization market matures, many organizations are beginning to find themselves in the position where the time to overcome disjointed marketing stacks has finally come – motivating them to look for solutions that will allow them to unify user data stuck in silos once and for all. While others, farther along the maturity ladder, require the flexibility to interact programmatically with the organization’s vast array of information sources to further embed personalization into the customer experience and user-level data sharing into third-party platforms.

For these teams, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are critical in helping accomplish this, providing full control in the management of data and how it’s implemented within a personalization program. In fact, according to a 2018 study by ProgrammableWeb, in the last five years, financial services institutions and eCommerce organizations have become key sectors in which API adoption has grown most dramatically. These companies leverage APIs in diverse ways, not just for integrating and consolidating data but also to identify patterns in user behavior and optimize the overall customer experience.

And the need for unified customer profiling solutions to cover all of these platforms and devices is growing exponentially as today’s digital identities continue to spin an intricate web of fragmented lines of information.

How Dynamic Yield democratizes user identity intelligence

With our Unified Customer Profile (UCP) API solution, a single API can be leveraged to read a unique new set user-level customer data. Using server-side API calls, developers are able to query an entire user profile programmatically returning affinity, behavioral, purchase, or events data making up a user’s journey across all available touchpoints.

Furthermore, information gained can then be fed into Dynamic Yield, or any other system, such as a chatbot, smart TV, client-telling app, and more for the creation of highly-targeted experiences.

Tailor in-app/web recommendations – to show users the most recent products they viewed in the last 90 days but didn’t purchase, or surface the most preferred items based on their affinity profile at any particular moment in time.

Develop custom individualized experiences – from data aggregated across solutions within the technology stack through a server-side implementation and into connected devices, kiosks, or in-store devices.

Having API access to unified user data gives companies the complete freedom to access rich data in real time, allowing them to fetch entire user profiles in milliseconds.

Grow your brand with Personalization APIs

Customers are expecting deeper and more tailored interactions from brands, and APIs allow them to control the personalization experience.

The Data Group at Dynamic Yield understands, the need for real-time, cloud-based access to user profile data is growing – and the use cases and problem statements we are solving with our customers are broadening and becoming more complex.